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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05
CRIME.

WNi. j. PARKS, formerly salesman for
a bakery in Milwaukee, was found to be
short $4,000 in his accounts, and hid ar
rest was effected in Omaha.
4 LAD named Defreitus, who recently
leaped from the Brooklyn bridge, WAS
sent to prison for three months.
MI1o II. DAKrS, a member OF the Michi-
iran house, having been convicted of
soliciting brides was expelled by unani
mOusyote,
A YOUNG baker in Cleveland, named
Stol has been arrested for the murder of
Maggie Mccarthy, a servant who gave up
her life rather than her honor.
Ar Coldwater Michigan, Thos. Johnson
fatally shot Geo. Gardner, fired twice at
Mrs. Gardner, and killed himself. The
woman was formerly his wife.
IDA SrUErEyANT, alias Gillespie alias
Montague, a shopliftor, was surrei dered
to q Chicago detective, Monday, Frf-
falo.
PErEE WEST, the Streator, H., SO Don
keeper, who shot a man named Parb. Ger
intimacy with his wife, was released Z n
the Joliet prison Monday evening.
Is New York, late on Saturday ght,
officers of the secret service caugh wo
women counterfeiting silver dolleTs in
which business they had been eDgrged
for some months.
TuE Wabash and Erie canal reservoir
in PEulding county, O., was destroyed
by two hundred masked men or Monday
night. The governor has ordere' mill.
TIA company from Toledo tc II Score &c
the riot.
Is the Doodle cases at Chicago pleas of
not guilty were entered by Warden Nc
Garigle, Edward $. Mcdonald ard Com
missioners Klehm, Cells Oliver, Leyden
and Ochs. Argument for a change of
venue followed until the hour Of adjourn
ment.
Ar Mostimer, Kansas, L. n. Hatfield
fatally shot his second wife and instantly
killed himself. She was recently ser
vant-girl, and he had promised to put
$4,000 worth of property in her name
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05
WASHINGTON.
The decrease in the public debt for
April is estimated at $4,000, 900 to $15
100000.

THE decrease in the public debt for
April is estimated at $l2,00O,000 to $l5
100000.
The secretary OF the interior has re-
quested the Attorney General to institute
suits against parties in various sections
of the countrX charged with uniaTfrAy
removing timber from the public do
main.
GEORGE Gray, attorney for the North
ern Pacific Road, is advised that the Can
adam Pacific has commenced to carry
sugar from the Pacific coast to st. Paul
at much lower rates than those which
prevailed on our transcontinental lines
prior to the order of suspension of Sat
urday last.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MYNARD has in
formed customs officers that imported
or reimported liquors withdrawn for
consumption, after having been ware
housed, are subject to duty On the quan-
tity entsred for warehouse and not on
that ascertained on withdrawal for con
sumption.
The act passed by the last Congress in
creasing the annual appropriation tor sup
plying arms and equipment to the militia
provides in its second section that the
distribution to the Territories and Dis
tr;ct of columbia shall be made under
such regulations and in such proportions
as the President may prescribe.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS is authority for
the statement that mono of the orders by
which lands were originally withdrawn
for indemnity purposes have been re-
voked on the records of the Land Office,
although not more than one-half of the
land originally withdrawn for indemnity
purposes is still subject to the demands
of the railroads.
CHAnLEs NJ. HILL, secretary of the
Philadelphia Wool Merchants Associa-
tion writes iuclosing a copy of resolu
ton OF the association protesting against
the suspension of the long and short haui
! for the Pacific roads. In its preamble
the document recitss that the rates from
| San Francisco to the East have been
from 30 to 90 cents per 100 pounds, while
from many nearer points it has been
/ from SIS to $3.50.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05
FOREIGN.

HEAVY snow-storm prevails through
out Scotland and Wales.
THE emperor of Brazil is reported to
be seriously ill.
THE duke of Portlands Ayrshire resi-
dsnce has been destroyed by fire.
DIFFICULTY arising at wedding near
Merida, Yucatan, resulted in the killing
of seven persons. including the groom.
THE Mexican secretary of the interior
denies the rumor that cholera has made
its appearance in that country.
MONTREAL dispatches reports one-thirG
of the city under water and more than
ten thousand operatives thrown out of
employment. Provisions are being are
being distributed by the corporation.
The French ambassador at Berlin tele
graphs that the German government is
inclined to admit the irregularity OF the
arrest of NJ, SchRaebeles, and it is believed
that he will soon be released.
SINCE the arrest of % soldiers at May
ence, the police have searched the resi-
dence of Deputy Post, fading there a
stock of socialistic pamphlets and docu-
ments. All those arrested at Mayence
will he tried on the charge of their bein <
members of secret society. Herr Toss
privilege as deputy protects him against
arrest.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05
SHE COULDN'T DO 1T.
According to the Interstate Bill it WOnld Be
impossible
New York Tribune.


New York Tribune.
She was the daughter of one of the
congressman who had assited in drafting
the inter state commerce bill, and having
made copy of it for him had become
tolerably familiar with its provisions 50
it was only natural, perhaps, that vheH
a notorious tlirt proposed 80 her the otds'
evening she should utilize the bill IN re-
fusipg him.
mo, George" she remarked in decided
tones when he had risen from his knees
sit can never be. | would not dare N.
trust my happiness to a man who would
be certain 10 indulge himself in many
like and contem peraneous attachments.
George protested that if she woola
consent TO become his he would never
look at another girl again. But it was no
use.
"You cannot alter my determination
George. Nothing would induce me 70
plight my troth so long rs / RENAMED
skeptical in regard to my lovers con
stancy to his promise TO take me for oe+
ter for worse, for richer for poorer LOT
short haul for long haul.'
George fumed, bit his lip, and ayoWeO
that she was cruel
Il am not cruel, George. l ans oni!
frank. You provoke just such skep'l
cism and l am of a peculiarly eIsctlag
disposition. l would demand of my nus
band a complete surrender of his near.
to me. and in time you would resent tha'
demand as awarding me undue and w u
reasonable preference; you would 1pCta'.
me for expecting you to exercise I'M
discrimination against other and comPe.
ing young ladies of Your acquaintan's
So you see, George"
But George had vanished into the ou''
darkness
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

Az Elgip, ILL.,, half dozen residences
have been entered by burglars lately,
and few gold watches are missing. w.
X. Hoagiand was awakened by a man in
his room. He started after the fellow
and was fred at by the burglars com
panions. No arrests have been made,
AT Brady, Mich, Saturday evening,
Clark Harrison, farmer, demonstrated
with james MeGurren for abusing his
(McGurren's) wife. Hot words followed,
and the men exchanged shots. Thinking
he had killed McGurren, Harrison return
ed home, took morphine, and expired in
a short time.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
darkness

Anthony Trollope's eldest son has PaD
lished his first novel, "My Own Low
Story
Ex-Secretary and Mrs. Manning wiz =.
presented to Queen Victoria at the hsA'
drawing room, May Is.
Yates Thompson, owner of the 10. Z a.
Mall Gazette, accompanied by ~
Thompson, has been receiving h1N'
social attention in Boston. -
Congressman Davenport OF -
York. was married to the dsughtsr y
General Sharpe at Kingston, n T., W. !,
rss5ay. Mr.. Davenport lived hie =
single blsssedness for over afty year.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

Speaking of cats and dogs, Dayton, the
Birmingham shoe man, comes to the front
with q curious story, illustrative by the
animals lower than man of considerable
degree of reasoning power. Two pets,
the one cat and the other a dog. we're
on unusually good terms, and we're always
fed their milk from little dishes placed
side by side. Doggie, with his tongue,
of course got outside of his apportion-
ment in much less time then could kittie
with her little lapper. Why the milk of
his little friend lasted so much longer
than did his own, doggie evidently could
not understand; and the more he thought
of it the more irksome became the pro
cess of the feline finish He knew trick
or two, however, and he would see about
this milk business.
One morning, the two were fed as US
ual, and doggie Tapped up his quota be
fore kittie had scarcely begun. The milk
that morning, looked very tempting, and
he must have it some how. So stepping
up quietly, he took the cat by the nape
of the neck and dragged her ABOUT forty
rods away and into the dewwet grass OF
the meadow, where he dopped and left
her 10 pick her way home at best she
could without wetting her feet, while be
scampered back over the fences and b.
the shortest cut to lap up the kittens
milk. Mr.. d. says that the cat was re
latiyely olsrge that the little dog had to
hold his head very high in order to KEEP
her four paws from the ground, which
was very oomi1al. The thing worked SO
well that il became TO be a regular morn
ing performance that was quite enter
tanning TO all VIII, witnessed it. Next
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05
A Glorious Climate
New York Sun.

III tell you little story that has be-
come an historic legend up in Santa
Barbara which will illustrate pretty WELL
think, what / am driving at. Santa
Barbara, you know, is handsome town
Oh the coast, famous for its hotel, magni-
ficent roses, and splendid bathing. On
one side spreads the broad Pacific and on
the other tower high and rug ged mount
aims Well, an old man once lived in the
town who is said to have first settled
there when the big mountains were little
hills. It was a regular habit with him to
go down and sit on the wharf whenever
u steamer was coming in. While seated
in his faYorite place one day he was APP
preached By a tourist who had Just step
ped eff the steamer, and who was looking
about to learn something of the country.
Stepping up 10 the old man, he asked;
How do you manage TO raise such
exquisite roses here:
Climate was the response.
And such large watermelous|
Climate, came again, monotonously.
And such fine crops of wheat and
barley
Climate, was echoed again, with a
vicious snap.
The inquisitiye tourist here faltered
a trihe before asking another question,
but finally he again ventured 1 under
stand you are to have d railroad built in
Santa Barbara"
The old man merely bowed his assent,
"'But how wilt You get over that mount
ain asked tie traveller, pointing to the
mountain in the rear of the town.
Climb IT,, growled the old man, as he
go: up and walked away
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

Omar excitement was caused in Louis
vile, Ky7r-ehout noon Friday by m
alarm sounded On the asehel!', a sigae'
OF eleven taps by the fire department had
been agreed apon in case the jail in
which are lodged tho two negroes who
80 brutaly beat Miss Jennie Bowman,
was ettaced by mob. About noon the
usual call given to notify members CT
legion vas sounded and was mistaken
by the citizens for the eleven taps. An
immense crowd soon gathered in the vi
cinity of the Jail but finding no mob
there and learning their mistake soon
quietly dispersed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

The Moorish prince, Abul Hejex, was
thrown iato prison for sedition by his
brother Muhammed, king of Granada.
There he remained for several years, I'M
til the king, fearing he might escape,
place himself at the head of fresh re
volt, and seizing the owu.sent,o one of his
pashas 20 see to his immediate execution.
Abul Hejex was playing at chess when
the pasha came and babe him prepare
for death. The prince asked for two
hours respite, which was refused. After
earnest entceaty he obtained permission
to flush his game, He was in no hurry
about the moves We are told and well II
WAS so, for before an hour had elapsed a
messenger brought the news that Muham-
med had been struck dead by apoplesy
and Abul was forthwith proclaimed king
OF Granada.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

SfRrous charges have been preferred
against Tax Commissioners Coleman and
Donnelly, of New York city, by the vice
president of the Central tax payers asso-
citation, and their removal has been asked.
The charges arc that they failed to assess
property lawfully entitled to assessment
aggregating S6o,OoOOOO and that they
allowed taxes to the extent Of $1,000 600
20 be lost to the city.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

The steel steamship Susquehanna was
pierced through by ice IN the straits of
Mackinaw Friday and her forward com
partment filled with water. If her forward
bulkhead holds out she will be able to
proceed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

THE British steamer Ben Hope enroute
from Vera Cruz for New York was burn
ed Thursday asternoon. The officers and
crew were rescued.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

A CRISIS has occurred in the Ser'ian
cabinet and the premier has resigned
The division is over the question of the
.Saryian policy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

THE Mexican secretary Of foreign at
fairs states that there is not single case
of cholera either in Mexico or Central
America.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

The president on Thursday appointed
Frank w. Welna, of West Point, Nebras-
ka, register at the land Office at Niobrara,
y ebraska.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

OFFICIAL reports of the oyster industry
show that no loss than $1,000 persons are
employed in producing annually Sl3, 439'-
s52 OF marketable oysters at an invest
mont of little oyor $lO000,0oo As the
product increases and prices decrease the
market responds, so that with proper
management the oyster may become a
staple article of food among the laboring
classes The state OF North Carolina has
lately taken murh interest in its oyster
beds, but tho laws arc still too vague to
allow secure titles in oyster grounds.
The frequent oyster wars in Chesa-
peake buy show the demand for
better legal regulations Lieut.. Winslow,
u. S. ~. who was detailed 60 make special
Investigations OF the oyster industries,
saws that the Connecticut law can be
prohtably copied by other maritime
states. This law provides for the grant
ing of perpetual franchises at fixed prices
Tor the taking of oysters on tracts ap-
piled tor except the natural beds There
are in consequence eight times AS many
zneu engaged in the oyster BUSINESS in
Connecticut now MS in 1880.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

CHARI rs TgLLAPoUGH an excentric old
bachelor living alone on farm near
Port Washington was brutally murdered
Wednesday evening fer his money.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

In probably never occurs TO the casual
thinker how much material is used in
publishing the production of an author,
especially if she number OF volumes
published be very great IL takes figures ~
and figures, compared with some familiar
standard, to reveal this During the ex-
ercises in memory of Gen. Grant, at
Hartford. Conn, Wednesday evening,
some curious statistics were read regard
ing the material used in The manufoc-
ture of his personal Memoirs from
which the following were taken In bind
ing the cloth books there was 1889
square yards of cloth used, or if put
in one piece ID would make strip
one yard wide and % 10 miles long
Tho gold used in stamping. lettering,
etc, on all styles OF binding, if coined,
would make $l5,4l647 The price
paid the gold heaters for this gold
was So, $3.50 There were 276 barrels
of binder paste used weighing about CO.
600 pounds. There were 27,SS2 sheep
skins used 7.921 goatskins and l3S calf
skins. IA none of these skins we're split,
it represents, of course, the killing of an
equal number Of animals. There were
about 3o2, 10 reams OF paper used IN the
printing, which weighed about l,sl3,Soo
pounds or 90G' tons This put into one
piece would make q strip feet
vide and l,6S0as miles long. If
the books were piled up in one row
the narrowest way, that ia the same as
they would stand in book case, il would
cake a shelf l9is miles long to hold
chem. II the pages of the books were
Joined together it would make strip Of
paper inches wide and G,729la miles
Song. Foityone steam presses We're
working day and night over 1000 opera
tives were employed and over 5000
agents engaged in distributing the books.
To these latter who were mainly old
soldiers ;and the widows OF soldiers, was
,oaid in commissions for the selling Of
the book, considerably more than $1,000,
900 in cash"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05
rHe MAIL SoBBEp.

Col. Wilder, superintendent OF the
mail service, said this afternoon tuat ne
had just received dispatch from MI
True. the mail agent on the route De-
tween Los Angeles AID Deming' con
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05
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when il cakes the form OF diseas OF tlI' -HnHys
or bladder. is a task well nigh impossible Of a--
compiishment Reual and yeScal malidies are
more obstinate than any others toun1erac"
therefore, The earliest Indications u inactivity 81
the many organs with Hostettcr's S.omaca ht-
terS which possesses, among other excellent
Qualities, those OK an eilicien; diuretic The de-
gree of stimulation apparent from It's use reaches
b1t never goes beyond the bounds " safety Il IL
yigorates always, never irritates. brghts dis7
ease diabetes catarrh u the bladder are ulsetlSl
- successfully coatbaited in their ncipeuey Win
tbis benign medicins! stlmulant and tonic he
aides reinforcing ami regulating the kidneys anl
bladder. the BiIters is specific for fever anu
nl,ue constipation and dyspepsia
Told by Labouchere: II cannot express
how much feel delighted and honored 81
having met you, Mr.. Carlyle" quoth Nh
Malloek, after conversation with the
sage of Chelsea. "Eh! well, hope may
not meet you again" is said TO have been
she pleasant reply.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05

il Is claimed that Rhinelauder is the
only place of its size in the state ths. has
no secret societies
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-05-18
DEMOCRAT ON THE WAR PATH.
Colonel Pat DOMAIN ExeOriates the
Cleveland Administration.

In spite Of all the gush and twaddle and
molasses- and water slop of toadying Or
gans and office-hankeripg scribblezs, this
administration strikes me as q dreary, dis
NAL, damned failure. 1t came in promis-
ing everything, and il has done next to
nothing, and much of the little it has done
had better been left undone. The country
has for years groaned under a system of
war taxation in time OF peace that piles up
in the Treasury $12 100000 a month of
revenue excess. An exaction so monstrous
would drive almost any other nation on
earth TO revolution. This much trum-
pete6 Democratic reform administra-
ton has done nothing 10 tighten
this intolerable burden. These SWELL
ing millions Of millions of useless
and wicked surplus must either be boarded
in the Treasury as an incentive to political
burglary, or spent in knocking the bottom
out of the best financial system on the
globe by buying up the BOMBS on which 1t
Is based, and that means an indefinite con-
traction of the currency and ultimate dis
aster to every business interest. This
vastly bepuffed administration has done
nothing TO remedy this evil and dangerous
condition of affairs. 1t has done nothing
toward amending the inequalities and the
iniquities of the tariff, which its whole
party had denounced for years; it has done
nothing to curb the importation Of millions
of foreign outcasts, the paupers and GRIM
inals of all creation. 1t has done nothing
to promote the purity of the ballot box; it
has done nothing to restore American COM
merce and shipping TO their once proud
pre-eminence on the seas; 1T has done
nothing to foster trade relations with our
American neighbor nations.
Some things, l admit, it has done. 1t
has married two or three new wives; 1t has
baptized one standard-oil baby with as
much fummery and funkeyism as if it
had been Spanish Infanta with 100
grandfathers, or a royal Russian Gar cub
with name as long as a fishing pole; it
has brought back poodles into fashion,
and inaugurated more nauseating tricks of
servile fawning and soft-squashy pane
gyric than any other outfit that ever wal
lowed in the White House; it has democrat
lied the finest postal service under the sun
by appointing tens of thousands of ig-
norant and incompetent substitutes for
trained officials; it has sent horde of
ancient and uncouth fossils of the ichthyo-
saurian period in politics to represent our
mighty New World Republic at foreign
courts, and render us laughing stock to
all the world.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-05-18

1900 people. When in his younger days
he enjoyed fishing and hunting exceeding
ly but when il came time for him to get
down to business he learned the black
smithing trade. which he followed for some
time. The greater part Of his life was de:
voted to farming. With the exception OF
chewing tobacco, Mr.. Smith was most
temperate man all his life. He never joined
any church, but had always been an atten--
tive and careful reader of the Bible, and
about six years ago was baptized. He cast
his first Presidential vote for James Madi-
son, and his last for Grover Cleveland, and
had always been Democrat. He never
rode on q railroad train and never ate
meal In hotel.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-05-18
Injury from the Drouth.
From tho Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Drouth in the grain fields of the Missis-
sippi Valley was the one great topic of
conversation in commercial circles Tues
day, and it materially influenced the course
of prices for the leading cereals. The
ground is very dry in the Southwest, and
to this is superadded the appearance of the
chinch-bug in Kansas, while the news
from the great spring wheat regions of the
Northwest was very bad, the crop prospects
in the fertile Red River Valley being de-
scribed as poor indeed. Grass seeds and
hay, as we'll as oats, corn, and wheat,
promise but scanty yield, unless there be
a speedy change in the conditions. And
in some cases the season is too far ad-
vanced to permit reasonable hope of full
crop. The time for spring showers has
gone by. and the good, vigorous root,
which is possible only when moisture has
been supplied during the early stages of
growth, is hardly to be expected now, the
indications being regarded as decidedly
unfavorable TO an average yield in proper
ton to acreage. Our street markets show
the effects of the unusual dryness in other
directions. The strawberry patches in
Mississippi are desiccated to the extent of
rendering the fruit unmarketable, while the
dusty appearance of the berries received
from Tennessee tells of almost equal
drouth in that State.